Russia-Ukraine war: Kiev says Moscow’s troop casualties top 1.43 million as tensions escalate | Today’s news
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced on Monday (local time) that Russia has lost 1,430,530 troops in Ukraine since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Kyiv began on February 24, 2022.
According to the Kyiv Independent, the figure also includes 1,600 casualties allegedly suffered by Russian forces in the past 24 hours.
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Russia is losing combat equipment
It also added that Moscow lost at least 12,158 tanks, 24,971 armored fighting vehicles, 122,894 vehicles and fuel tanks, 46,343 artillery systems, 1,953 multiple launch missile systems, 1,511 air defense systems, 438 aircraft, 354 helicopters, 452,518 robotic systems, drones. 34 ships and boats and two submarines.
However, citing operational secrecy, Kyiv has not disclosed its own losses during the ongoing full invasion.
An independent report by a Western think tank agreed that Russian losses far outnumber Ukraine’s, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) putting the ratio at “roughly 2.5:1 or 2:1”.
A January 2026 CSIS report estimated that Ukraine suffered between 500,000 and 600,000 casualties between February 2022 and December 2025. An estimated 100,000 to 140,000 of these were killed in action (KIA).
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Russia suffered 1.4 million casualties: CSIS
Earlier this month, a CSIS report said Moscow had lost about 450,000 lives since Russia launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine. It is also estimated that the total number of victims of the war appears to have exceeded the 2 million mark.
According to CSIS estimates, Russia has claimed at least 1.4 million casualties since the start of the war, including personnel killed, wounded and missing in action, roughly equivalent to 1 percent of the country’s population. Total casualties in Ukraine are estimated at 525,000 to 625,000, with casualties estimated at 125,000 to 150,000.
The report added that Moscow’s victims were disproportionately concentrated in poorer regions and among ethnic minority communities. Russian opposition media are increasingly drawing attention to small, remote villages where a significant proportion of the male population was lost in the war. It also found that Moscow was no longer able to replace troops as quickly as it was losing them on the battlefield.
At least 28 dead in July in Odessa: Governor
Odesa’s governor said on Monday that Russian strikes had so far killed 28 people in the southern region of Ukraine. He said: “If you take the period from the beginning of July, the Odesa region is continuously shelled daily. There were days when 13-15 airstrikes were announced in the region.”
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The Russia-Ukraine war is escalating
Ukraine has launched a nighttime drone strike targeting Moscow and nearby areas, deploying around 400 drones, Russian officials said on Monday. The attacks reportedly injured 10 people and caused fires in several buildings. Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov said in a post on Telegram that seven people, including three Chinese citizens, were injured in the city of Domodedovo, which is located near one of the Russian capital’s main airports.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kiev targeted logistics facilities and oil storage in the region of the Russian capital. Earlier on July 18, Kyiv launched a series of drone strikes that killed seven workers at a Wildberries warehouse and injured dozens more. In a separate attack, a fire broke out at an oil depot elsewhere in the region.
Kiev claims that Wildberries sells military supplies that support Russia’s war effort. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, air defense units intercepted and destroyed 381 Ukrainian drones overnight across several Russian regions, as well as over the Black and Azov Seas.
